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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pat comes back in with Monsewer and Meg tells him what?
(a) What is happening to the British prisoner.
(b) What is happening to the Irish prisoner.
(c) That dinner is ready.
(d) That the prisoner's room is prepared.

2. About what else do Meg and Pat argue?
(a) Whether Meg should know many details about the arrival of this prisoner.
(b) Pat's missing leg.
(c) Whether Meg has any right to argue because she's too young to remember the IRA's first battles in the early 1900's.
(d) Pat's ability to deal with the Soldier.

3. What is revealed about Meg?
(a) She was an orphan.
(b) She is a mother.
(c) She was a spy.
(d) She lived in England.

4. About what does Mulleady complain, regarding his shirts?
(a) His shirts are all discolored or torn.
(b) Meg has not given him back the shirts he gave her to be laundered.
(c) He has no new shirts.
(d) Meg has not folded them properly.

5. After saying she will pray for everyone, what does Miss Gilchrist do?
(a) She begins to laugh.
(b) She sits on the couch.
(c) She kneels down to pray.
(d) She leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa promise?

2. What do Pat and Meg talk briefly about when Monsewer leaves?

3. Why do Meg and Teresa enter the scene at this point?

4. What does Meg say to Mulleady's complaint?

5. This person who will soon be arriving is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the play end?

2. What takes place between the Soldier and Teresa when they are first alone?

3. What does the IRA officer come in and do?

4. How does Meg respond to Pat's comment about the house being little more than a brothel? How does he reassure her?

5. How does Pat feel about the way that Meg talks to him?

6. What do Meg and Pat say about money?

7. What does Monsewer think about the Irish soldier's predicament?

8. About what is the article? How do the various characters react?

9. What does Pat tell Teresa to do? How will he reward her? How does she respond?

10. What is revealed about the Soldier?

(see the answer keys)

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